This web page was created
because there is virtually no information on the internet about
the Moylan Sisters
- two talented little girls who sang on the radio back in the
'30s and '40s.

Peggy Joan: 1/?/1932
-
Marianne: 7/16/1930- 7/25/1990

The sisters were first
featured on the radio program: The Horn and Hardart Children's
Hour,
and were soon give their own 15-minute network show at ages 5
and 7.
When they made their network debut with their own radio program
in 1939,
they were 5 and 7 years old. The girls continued to perform through
the WWII years, and stopped performing sometime after 1951.

The sisters appeared in four short films, "The Backyard Broadcast"
(1936), "Starlets" (1937) (release #B33-34),
"Toyland Casino" (1938), and "Worlds Fair Junior"
(1939) (Release #253-254), all for the Vitaphone Corporation.

The Moylan's had an amazing
blend and uncanny pitch, with nary a trace of adult-like vibrato.
They were allowed to SOUND like children, unlike singing show-biz
kids to come decades later, in musicals like "Annie".People who remember the Moylans from
their radio show, always seem to remember their Thrivo (dog food)
commercial best:

" We feed our
doggie thrivo - he's very much alive-o
Full of Pep and Vim
If you want a Peppy pup, you had better hurry up
Buy Thrivo for him."

Peggy Joan is still
alive and living in New York State, but Marianne passed away
in 1992.

The aim of this web
page is to fill this void on a little-remembered singing duo
from the past that deserves recognition.
This is just the beginning, so check this page regularly for
more updates.

ABOUT Horn and Hardart
Children's Hour

The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour
(later known as The Children's Hour) was a variety show with
a cast of children, including some who later became well-known
adult performers.
Launched in 1927, the program was initially broadcast on WCAU
Radio in Philadelphia, hosted by Stan Lee Broza, and was later
aired on NBC Radio in New York during the 1940s and 1950s. The
original New York host was Paul Douglas, followed by Ralph Edwards
and finally Ed Herlihy.
The program was sponsored by Horn & Hardart, which owned
automats in New York and Philadelphia. A number of performers
became quite successful after their work on the Philadelphia
TV series, including Ted Arnold (musical director for Glenn Yarbrough
and José Feliciano), Frankie Avalon, Rosemary Clooney,
Buddy DeFranco, Eddie Fisher, Kitty Kallen (1940s-1950s vocalist),
Ann Sheridan, comedy actor Arnold Stang, Bernadette Peters, and
Ezra Stone (radio's original Henry Aldrich).

If you have any other information
about the Moylan Sisters, or information on more of their recordings,
please contact me.Contact webmaster
Dana CountrymanDownloadable
Mp3 Files

Musically, the songs that were chosen
for the Moylans, smack of old-school vaudeville
and you can hear that turn-of-the-century style in these, their
78 recordings.Download these MP3 files and have a listen
for yourself.

Please take a listen to Peggy Joan
and Marianne Moylan, 5 and 7 years old: